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    When state Rep. Sam Park was first elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, there hadn’t been much of a history of Asian-Americans winning office in Gwinnett County.

    In fact, he was only the second Korean-American to win a legislative seat in the county, and the first member of that community to do so — former state Rep. BJay Pak — was leaving office in 2016, which was the first year Park was elected to the legislature. Their tenures in the House didn’t even overlap.


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